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Cyrus Shahmiri ![]() Tsar ![]() ![]() King of Kings Joined: 07-Aug-2004 Location: Iran Status: Offline Points: 3963 |
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Would someone please explain to me about the huge similarities between Northern European and Iranian stories (not other Indo-European ones) that we discussed in this thread? Please don't talk about again a proto-Indo-European origin!
Another one:
HAMLET, the hero of Shakespeare's tragedy, a striking figure in Scandinavian romance. The chief authority for the legend of Hamlet is Saxo Grammaticus. Dr. O. L. Jiriczek 6 first pointed out the striking similarities existing between the story of Amleth in Saxo and the other northern versions, and that of Kei Chosro in the Shahnameh (Book of the King) of the Persian poet Firdausi. The comparison was carried farther by R. Zenker (Boeve Amlethus, pp. 207-268, Berlin and Leipzig, 1904), who even concluded that the northern saga rested on an earlier version of Firdausi's story, in which indeed nearly all the individual elements of the various northern versions are to be found. |
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King John ![]() Immortal Guard ![]() ![]() Joined: 01-Dec-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1368 |
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Cyrus that's not what your quote said. It said:
You really do like to Cherry-pick your evidence don't you? Did you read the entire article or just search for the section that mentioned a Persian? Had you read the whole thing you would have seen the paragraph above the one that you provided, which pointed out the similarities between Saxo's Hamlet and a Roman story. Is the Roman story Persian as well? Had you read on you would have seen the rest of that paragraph where the author points out the similarities to the stories of Bellerophon, Heracles, and Servius Tullius. As far as I can tell these stories are much older than the ones mentioned above (that is Saxo, the story of Brutus, and Firdausi). Is it possible that Firdausi borrowed his story from the Romans? Is the story of Hamlet really that unique? All cultures with a political system have had similar stories, why is it not possible that these stories are parallel development? Does the Saga of Hrolf Kraki not have any bearing on Shakespeare's Hamlet? What about the similarities between Hamlet and English Romances of Havelok, King Horn, and Bevis of Hampton? The fact of the matter is that in all probability these stories – Saxo and Firdausi – developed independently. It should not be surprising to see that many cultures have these stories with similar details. That fact that multiple cultures have these stories is in fact not evidence of one's descent from another. In order to show descent you have to prove that one knew the story from the other, so in your case you would have to prove that Saxo had Firdausi's story in hand when he wrote that section of his Historia. When one doesn't have a strong grasp of the culture and historiography of a nation's history one probably should go about making claims about that country.
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And therefore 'post-classical', no? I accept that's more accurate though.
That's the same reference given in the article I linked to.
I like the etymology connecting the word with Tethys though, since it bears out the supposition that the phrase just means 'across the sea' ('vale of Tethys'?).
I suggested 'narrow' seas not to make 'narrow' a possible connotation of 'tithicam', but as one of the connotations of 'vallem' - i.e. you wouldn't call the open ocean 'tithica valles'.
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Cyrus Shahmiri ![]() Tsar ![]() ![]() King of Kings Joined: 07-Aug-2004 Location: Iran Status: Offline Points: 3963 |
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King John, it is obvious that you just want to deny, you can find some similarities between all stories of the different regions of the world, but I hope you can understand that I'm talking about something so much more than these simple similarities, not only between two but almost all Iranian and Northern European stories, as you read about Hamlet it says "the northern saga rested on an earlier version of Firdausi's story, in which indeed nearly all the individual elements of the various northern versions are to be found," so you have to believe it is impossible that these stories – Saxo and Firdausi – developed independently.
Lets see another ones: Spandiyard (Esfandiyar) & Sigurd (Siegfried), as you see both names are similar, please you yourself compare them with Achilles who, similar to them, was invulnerable on all of his body except in one spot.
Esfandiyar & the Dragon: http://64.91.240.146/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=376 (from Shahnameh)
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King John ![]() Immortal Guard ![]() ![]() Joined: 01-Dec-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1368 |
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You, Cyrus, keep talking about the similarities between Northern European Stories and Iranian one but you don't talk about the similarities of Northern European stories with say Greco/Roman Stories (something your source did). You just cherry pick the part of the source that supports what you think, you need to take in the entire source, its argument and what it says, not just the part that supports your point of view. You use sources that quote out-dated material (ie: books published in 1905). You also do not provide proof that Saxo used the story of Firdausi has his base material for his "Hamlet" story. Was Firdausi even translated into Latin or any European Vernacular language by 1208 AD (when Saxo died)? Do you have any proof that Saxo knew any sort of Persian? Pointing out these things or even asking you how these stories/myths/legends don't have a more ancient Indo-European origin is not denial, it is critical thinking. When I pointed out that your source for the Hamlet argument states that there is a similar story in the works of the Roman Historian Livy you neglected to respond to that. When I asked you if it was possible that Firdausi got his story from that more ancient source (and one that Saxo, as a bishop trained in Latin, would definitely know) you failed to answer that. Instead you respond with the above quote. If Firdausi really is the origin of Saxo's story you should easily be able to respond to my comment and question with evidence, the fact that you haven't responded in that manner leads me to believe that you cannot refute my comment nor answer my question.
Let us return to one of your previous "connected" stories, the stories of Ymir and Yama/Yima. I asked you to provide the similarities that exist between the two stories, you haven't. Why is that? If there really are so many similarities that would make such a strong argument for them to be the same, I would think you would gladly provide them. It has been a few days since I asked for those similarities and you still haven't provided them. So I will compare the two stories, from my understanding of them. Ymir in ON mythology is said to have formed the race of giants, he was born in Ginnungagap when ice from Niflheim met the heat of Muspelheim and melted forming drops of eitr. The drops came together and formed Ymir and sparks from Muspelheim gave him life. This very abridged story shows him not to be of the race of men, clearly he was a supernatural being whose offspring were the main enemies of the gods. When Odin and his brothers killed Ymir they used his body to form Midgard (the Earth). Yama/Yima as I understand was the first man and a great king of men. When he died he went and ruled over the underworld. So let's recap Ymir a hermaphrodite that gave rise to the race of giants, Yama a mortal who gave rise to men. Ymir after being killed became the world in every aspect, Yama came to rule over the underworld. It seems to me that these two stories have greater differences than similarities. Your theory about the similarities/connection between the two comes from a controversial theory laid out in 1992 by W. Meid, which posits that these two characters have Indo-European origins. In regards to Achilles as far as I can tell never slew a dragon as Sigurd did. Why don't we compare them to, I don't know, Grendel who is also invulnerable, but to swords. Invulnerability plays a role in these myths/legends to make the characters seem more heroic/monstrous. I also fail to see how this supports your claim since there is also a Hindu story about an invincible warrior so how is this character trait not parallel development or even of an older origin? How do these stories support your theory? Name similarities are all well and good but they don't show connections nor do they show similarities. *Edit Please respond to all my points.
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Cyrus Shahmiri ![]() Tsar ![]() ![]() King of Kings Joined: 07-Aug-2004 Location: Iran Status: Offline Points: 3963 |
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I have not already enough time to give a full reply to your post, just about Old Norse Ymir (Aurgelmir) and Iranian Yima (Gayomart), I don't know why you talk about the first one but then compare him with Indian Yama, the lord of death, who has just a similar name to them?!! Whenas the Iranian one is a giant, almost the same as the Old Norse one, is nourished by a cow (Iranian Ivakdad & Old Norse Audumla, killed by a god (Ahriman/Buri) and finally his body becomes different parts of the earth.
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Many myths are similar in many widespread civilizations. Let's for example compare Ymir and Pangu. Ymir: hairy ancient giant, his blood became the rivers, his flesh the mountains, his teeth the stones, his hair the trees, his skull the heaven. Pangu: hairy ancient giant, his blood became the rivers, his flesh the mountains, his bones the gems, his fur the trees, his beard the stars. The Indians also have a myth about a god cut up to form the world (and, as the case with Ymir, his skull formed the heaven). Same for the Babylonians. Myths are ancient and primordial. They may appear similar, but have independent beginnings. They may also travel, converge and form new myths. That two people have similar myths does in no way mean these two people descend from the same. In this case, Iranian and Germanic have both the same IE roots, so it's not strange they share myths at all. There are also many similarities with Greek and Roman mythology, but you conveniently ignore these. You pick the raisins without examining the whole bread. Comparing myths is very interesting, but it's totally irrelevant when it comes to migrations and ethnic relations. Iran is a Muslim country with the same creation myth as the Arabs - does that mean Persians are descendant from Arabs? Or Indonesians for that matter. Edited by Styrbiorn - 04-Mar-2009 at 11:29 |
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Cyrus Shahmiri ![]() Tsar ![]() ![]() King of Kings Joined: 07-Aug-2004 Location: Iran Status: Offline Points: 3963 |
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I can say you can find the similarities between Iranian and north European stories in all aspects, not just names or the details of the stories but even main features of the characters, in my first post in this thread I talked about red-haired Scythians, we see about the Iranian national hero Rustam the Saksi (Scythian), Ferdosi says: "همه موي سر سرخ و رويش چو خون", it means Rustam was born with red hair, red like the blood. It is said that the meaning of his name is also "red haired", we know Proto-Germanic word *rusta- also means "red/rust" -> http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=rust&searchmode=none
Snorri introduces Vanaheimr thus:
Vanir warrior:
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Styrbiorn ![]() Caliph ![]() Joined: 04-Aug-2004 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 2818 |
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Good, then we can finally decide there is no connection. The Scandinavians looked nothing like that Hollywood picture!
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King John ![]() Immortal Guard ![]() ![]() Joined: 01-Dec-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1368 |
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Please take the time to respond to my post 6 posts above this one, about which you said you hadn't enough time to respond. I would very much like to hear what you have to say to it.
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Every time I think Cyrus has brought the discussion to the very lowest scientific level, he is able to bring it further down. Your arguments are old, disproved and rediculous.
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Cyrus Shahmiri ![]() Tsar ![]() ![]() King of Kings Joined: 07-Aug-2004 Location: Iran Status: Offline Points: 3963 |
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Therefore the problem is your method of criticism, in fact you are not criticizing my argument when for example you don't say for these reasons Amleth was not similar to Kei Chosro but say there were also some similarities between the story of Amleth and some Greco-Roman stories, maybe you think if you expand my argument then you will be able to conclude that these stories have all proto-Indo-European origins but the important point is the amount and type of the similarity. It is not difficult to find out that these similarities were from a common origin or appeared later because of a cultural influence. About another story, as you read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles Achilles was originally the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, not a mythical hero who fights against the dragon. Some centuries later, Statius probably reads about Spandiyard (Esfandiyar) or Sigurd (Siegfried) and thinks it is not bad that our greatest warrior to be also invulnerable, but we see his invulnerability can't fit in the Iliad where Homer mentions Achilles being wounded: in Book 21. |
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ROFLOL ...
![]() I am having a flash back memory as I follow this long-drawn-out debate on the theory of possible Iranic origin for Britain's earliest inhabitants & Germanic peoples,it reminds of one particular thread at another history forum involved an ethnic Vietnamese moderator and Chinese posters arm wrestled on the origin of Han-Chinese.It was his pet project & an obsession.He was well prepared and gathered some dubious informations ( links and DNA whatever ) to prove " pure Vietnamese origin " of the Chinese race.On the hand,he never ceased to propagate Chinese origin of his ethnic Vietnamese people.What a 2-faced freak.
Anyway,one extremely bright Chinese-Aussie forummer sucessfully refuted all his stupid claims.
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This looks more like a display of stamina and inexhaustible supply of stubbornness on the part of some than a true preoccupation with historical truth... Sad.
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Cyrus Shahmiri ![]() Tsar ![]() ![]() King of Kings Joined: 07-Aug-2004 Location: Iran Status: Offline Points: 3963 |
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King John, I am talking about a common origin between Iranian and Northern European stories which could be Scythian stories, I never mean a Persian influence on the Germanic Culture or vice versa, it is certainly impossible that Saxo Grammaticus could access a translation of the Shahanmeh just one century after Ferdosi, we see even some Germanic stories, like the Lay of Hildebrand, are older than similar stories in the Shahnameh, of course I don't want to say that Ferdosi himself created the stories of Shahnameh, in fact he just versified them but most of them were oral stories, not written. Anyway I believe non of them was a copy of another one, there are really some differnces between Iranian and Northen European stories and I don't deny that they developed independently but they were principally the same.
You can't find this principal similarity between other Indo-European stories and them, for example about Sigurd and Spandiyard, the principal similarity is their invulnerability and their weak points which is the most important thing in the stories of them, their weak point is a secret that no one else knows, so no one can kill them but they finally are killed easily when this secret is revealed, of course there are some other things, like fighting against the dragon, that without them the story loses its solidarity and becomes incomplete, so we see there is no reason in the story of Achilles that him to be invulnerable, therefore his invulnerability, as Greeks themselves know, couldn't be in the original story by Homer but just something which was added later. Edited by Cyrus Shahmiri - 05-Mar-2009 at 12:13 |
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Now you're making up criteria to fit your theory, as usual. Gcle expressed it eloquently in another thread: when you instead of looking at the data and make a theory from that, you make up a theory and then tries to find data to support it, it's no longer science but religion. |
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